A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist ec...onomy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a... teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach, tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a woman?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I do not claim that all women, or a large portion of them, should enter into independent business relations with the world, but I ...do claim that all women should cultivate and respect in themselves an ability to make money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I suppose you all realize that as members of the court marshall for the trial of the conspirators in the assassination of our belo...ved president you have on your souls a grave responsibility. The object of this trial is not to determine the guilt or innocence of a handful of rebels but to save this country from further bloodshed. The solemn truth, gentlemen, is that the federal union is on the verge of hysteria. That is why the trial of these conspirators has been placed in your hands rather than in a civil court. Because men of the sword can be hard, and hardness is all that can save this country from riot, mob rule, even resumption of the war itself.... To help you to be hard, first, you must not allow your judgement in decision in this case to be troubled by any trifling technicalities of the law or any pedantic regard for the customary rules of evidence. Second, and most important, you must not allow yourself to be influenced by that obnoxious creation of legal nonsense--reasonable doubt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Not all the family functions that seem to have been transferred outside the family--or that romantics sometimes yearn to bring bac...k--were there in the first place. It is often claimed that "extended families" (with three generations at home, aunts and uncles included) were the rule, and that they have now been replaced by "nuclear" families. But actually most Americans have always lived in families consisting only of parents and children, and in colonial days, just as today, most children moved away from their parents' homes to set up households of their own. Nor is the mobility that scatters kinfolk to widely separated regions a new thing; historical studies indicate that frequent moves to new places have always been the rule in American life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »